Mortimer Sellers

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Mortimer Sellers
Regents Professor, University System of Maryland – Elkins Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law
Personal details
Born1959
Philadelphia
Nationality
Philosopher
Historian
Lawyer
Website[1]

Mortimer Newlin Stead Sellers (M.N.S. Sellers) (born 1959) is Regents Professor of the

universal human rights. He has been Director of the University of Baltimore Center for International and Comparative Law since 1994.[4]

Education

The interdisciplinary nature of Sellers' work has been consistent throughout his career. After graduating from

.

Career

Along with authors such as

international politics. Sellers' conception of republicanism is grounded in the history of ideas, with an emphasis on constitutional procedures and the concept of the common good. Sellers has written extensively on the republican antecedents of the French Revolution and the American Revolution
, and the influence of legal philosophy and legal education on political and social change. He has been an active participant in the development of post-Soviet and post-authoritarian legal institutions in Europe, Asia, and South America.

Sellers’ public influence arises in part from his editorship (with Mark Agrast) of the book series ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory and (with David Gerber) of ASCL Studies in Comparative Law, both published by Cambridge University Press. Much of the most important new thought in international and comparative law has been published in these series. He is also the editor (with Stephan Kirste) of the IVR Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy.

In addition to his scholarly work, Sellers has been active in promoting international cooperation between lawyers and judges to advance global justice, through the European-American Consortium for Legal Education (EACLE) and the Brazil-United States Administration of Justice Project, among other initiatives. He is an associate editor of the American Journal of Comparative Law and a member of the editorial board of the Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, Lusíada Direito, Notícia do Direito Brasileiro, and Glossae: The European Journal of Legal History. Sellers is an elected member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, a former H.L.A. Hart Fellow of University College, Oxford, and former Lauterpacht Fellow of Cambridge University. Sellers is married to the journalist Frances Stead Sellers.

See also: Sellers family

Bibliography

Books by M.N.S Sellers

References

  1. ^ "Officials 2015". 31 July 2015.
  2. ^ "Board41003". www.usmd.edu.
  3. ^ "II130". www.usmd.edu.
  4. ^ "Center for International and Comparative Law - University of Baltimore". law.ubalt.edu.